请给我十首英文小诗

people
laugh,
and
people
cry
some
give
up,
some
always
try
some
say
hi,
while
some
say
bye
some
may
forget
you,
but
never
i
觉得蛮有感觉的。
它把人与人的不同，人与人之间的奋斗，人与人之间的联系，和人与人之间的情感都提到了。可是说来说去，重要的却只有那最后一句而已；但若只有最后一句的话，又好像略显单薄了。总之是恰到好处啊！！
本来网上还有一个版本的，前面都一样，只是最后一句不同：some
will
forget
you,
but
never
will
i
.虽然意思相同，但一下子就觉得不如上面那个更老的版本了。有的时候，语法在美感面前是微不足道的。把那个“will”去掉，再读一遍诗，会发现很有韵律，身心都随着诗句震动时，诗的美感也就很容易地体现出来了。哈哈，我还悄悄地把最后一句的“others”改成了现在的“some”，本人以本人浅薄的英语功底来看，还是觉得挺得意的。呵呵，突然觉得自己有文化的了！都可以看英文诗了！自恋ing～～
这首诗可以送给谁呢？即将分别的朋友，还是远在他乡的恋人？个人认为它挺适合我们现在这种要离开家乡，到遥远的异乡去奋斗的孩子们的。（

A Grain of Sand 一粒沙子 [有声]

William Blake/威廉.布莱克
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild fllower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
从一粒沙子看到一个世界，
从一朵野花看到一个天堂，
把握在你手心里的就是无限，
永恒也就消融于一个时辰

Friends 朋友 [有声]
A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
真正的朋友是一个可以援手帮助并感动你心扉的人。
There's always going to be people that hurt you,so what you have to do is keep on trusting and just be more careful about who you trust next time around.
别人常常伤害你，所以你该继续付出信任，并小心挑选你下次信任的人。
Make youself a better person and know who you are before you try and know someone else and expect them to know you.
在你想了解别人也想让别人了解你之前，先完善并了解自己。
Remember:Whatever happens,happens for a reason.
要记住：任何事情的发生都有因有起。
How many people actually have 8 true friends?Hardly anyone I know.But some of us have all right friends and good friends.
有多少人可以拥有八个真正的朋友？就我所知少之又少。但我们会有泛泛之交和好友。

The Rainy Day
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 亨利.沃兹渥斯.朗费罗
The day is cold,and dark,and dreary;
It rains,and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the moldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.
My life is cold and dark and dreary;
It rains and the wind is never weary;
My though still cling to the moldering past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.
Be still,sad heart!And cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
天冷、阴暗、沉闷；
下着雨，风也刮个不停；
藤还攀附着颓垣残壁，
每来一阵狂风，枯叶附落纷纷，
天真是阴暗而沉闷。
我的生活寒冷、阴郁、沉闷；
下着雨，风也刮个不停；
我的思想还纠缠着消逝的往事，
大风里，我的青春希望相继熄灭，
天真是阴暗而沉闷。
安静吧，忧伤的心！别再悔恨；
乌云后面太阳依然辉煌灿烂；
你命运和大家的一样，
每个人一生都得逢上阴雨，
有些日子必然阴暗而沉闷。

泰戈尔的诗，很美的，短小易懂
1
夏天的飞鸟，飞到我的窗前唱歌，又飞去了。
秋天的黄叶，它们没有什么可唱，只叹息一声，飞落在那里。
Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.
And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall
there with a sign.
2
世界上的一队小小的漂泊者呀，请留下你们的足印在我的文字里。
O Troupe of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my
words.
3
世界对着它的爱人，把它浩翰的面具揭下了。
它变小了，小如一首歌，小如一回永恒的接吻。
The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.
It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.
4
是大地的泪点，使她的微笑保持着青春不谢。
It is the tears of the earth that keep here smiles in bloom.
5
无垠的沙漠热烈追求一叶绿草的爱，她摇摇头笑着飞开了。
The mighty desert is burning for the love of a bladeof grass who
Shakes her head and laughs and flies away.
6
如果你因失去了太阳而流泪，那么你也将失去群星了。
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
7
跳舞着的流水呀，在你途中的泥沙，要求你的歌声，你的流动呢。你肯挟瘸足的泥沙而俱下么？
The sands in your way beg for your song and your movement, dancing
water. Will you carry the burden of their lameness?
8
她的热切的脸，如夜雨似的，搅扰着我的梦魂。
Her wishful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.
9
有一次，我们梦见大家都是不相识的。
我们醒了，却知道我们原是相亲相爱的。
Once we dreamt that we were strangers.
We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
10
忧思在我的心里平静下去，正如暮色降临在寂静的山林中。
Sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening among
the silent trees.

11
有些看不见的手，如懒懒的微风思的，正在我的心上奏着婵媛的乐声。
Some unseen fingers, like an idle breeze, are playing upon my heart
the music of the ripples.
12
“海水呀， 你说的是什么？”
“是永恒的疑问。”
“天空呀， 你回答的话是什么？”
“是永恒的沉默。”
What language is thine, O sea?
The language of eternal question.
What language is thy answer, O sky?
The language of eternal silence.
13
静静地听，我的心呀，听那世界的低语，这是它对你求爱的表示呀。
Listen, my heart, to the whispers of the world with which it makes love to you.
14
创造的神秘，有如夜间的黑暗－－是伟大的。而知识的幻影却不过如晨间之雾。
The mystery of creation is like the darkness of night--it is great.
Delusions of knowledge are like the fog of the morning.
15
不要因为峭壁是高的，便让你的爱情坐在峭壁上。
Do not seat your love upon a precipice because it is high.
16
我今晨坐在窗前，世界如一个路人似的，停留了一会，向我点点头又走过去了。
I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops
for a moment, nods to me and goes.
17
这些微思，是树叶的簌簌之声呀；它们在我的心里欢悦地微语着。
There little thoughts are the rustle of leaves; they have their whisper of joy in my mind.
18
你看不见你自己，你所看见的只是你的影子。
What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.
19
神呀，我的那些愿望真是愚傻呀，它们杂在你的哥声中喧叫着呢。
让我只是静听着吧。
My wishes are fools, they shout across thy song, my Master.
Let me but listen.
20
我不能选择那最好的。
是那最好的选择我。
I cannot choose the best.
The best chooses me.
21
那些把灯背在背上的人，把他们的影子投到了自己前面。
They throw their shadows before them who carry their lantern on
their back.
22
我的存在，对我是一个永久的神奇，这就是生活。
That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
23
“我们萧萧的树叶都有声响回答那风和雨。你是谁呢，那样的沉默着？”
“我不过是一朵花。”
We, the rustling leaves, have a voice that answers the storms,
but who are you so silent?
I am a mere flower.
24
休息与工作的关系，正如眼睑与眼睛的关系。
Rest belongs to the work as the eyelids to the eyes.
25
人是一个初生的孩子，他的力量，就是生长的力量。
Man is a born child, his power is the power of growth.
26
神希望我们酬答他，在于他送给我们的花朵，而不在于太阳和土地。
God expects answers for the flowers he sends us, not for the sun
the earth.
27
光明如一个裸体的孩子，快快活活地在绿叶当中游戏，它不知道人是会欺诈的。
The light that plays, like a naked child, among the green leaves
happily knows not that man can lie.
28
啊，美呀，在爱中找你自己吧，不要到你镜子的谄谀去找寻。
O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

29

我的心把她的波浪在世界的海岸上冲激着，以热泪在上边写着她的题记：“我爱你。”
My heart beats her waves at the shore of the world and writes upon
it her signature in tears with the words, I love thee.
30
“月儿呀，你在等候什么呢？”
“向我将让位给他的太阳致敬。”
Moon, for what do you wait?
To salute the sun for whom I must make way.

31
绿树长到了我的窗前，仿佛是茵哑的大地发出的渴望的声音。
The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth.
32
神自己的清晨，在他自己看来也是新奇的。
His own mornings are new surprises to God.
33
生命从世界得到资产，爱情使它得到价值。
Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth
by the claims of love.
34
枯竭的河床，并不感谢它的过去。
The dry river-bed finds no thanks for its past.
35
鸟儿愿为一朵云。
云儿愿为一只鸟。
The bird wishes it were a cloud.
The cloud wishes it were a bird.
36
瀑布歌唱道：“我得到自由时便有了歌声了。”
The waterfall sing, I find my song, when I find my freedom.
37
我说不出这心为什么那样默默地颓丧着。
是为了它那不曾要求，不曾知道，不曾记得的小小的需要。
I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence.
It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers.
38
妇人，你在料理家务的时候，你的手足歌唱着，正如山间的溪水歌唱着在
小石中流过。
Woman, when you move about in your household service your limbs sing
like a hill stream among its pebbles.
39
当太阳横过西方的海面时，对着东方留下他的最后的敬礼。
The sun goes to cross the Western sea, leaving its last salutation
to the East.
40
不要因为你自己没有胃口而去责备你的食物。
Do not blame your food because you have no appetite41
群树如表示大地的愿望似的，掂起脚来向天空窥望。
The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand atiptoe to peep
at the heaven.
42
你微微地笑着，不同我说什么话。而我觉得，为了这个，我已等待得久了。
You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this
I had been waiting long.
43
水里的游鱼是沉默的，陆地上的兽类是喧闹的，空中的飞鸟是歌唱着的。
但是，人类却兼有海里的沉默，地上的喧闹与空中的音乐。
The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy,
the bird in the air is singing.
But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and
the music of the air.
44
世界在踌躇之心的琴弦上跑过去，奏出忧郁的乐声。
The world rushes on over the strings of the lingering heart making
the music of sadness.
45
他把他的刀剑当着他的上帝。
当他的刀剑胜利的时候他自己却失败了。
He has made his weapons his gods.
When his weapons win he is defeated himself.
46
神从创造中找到他自己。
God finds himself by creating.
47
阴影戴上她的面幕，秘密地，温顺地，用她的沉默的爱的脚步，跟在“光”后边。
Shadow, with her veil drawn, follows Light in secret meekness,
with her silent steps of love.
48
群星不怕显得向萤火那样。
The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
49
谢谢神，我不是一个权力的轮子，而是被压在这轮子下的活人之一。
I thank thee that I am none of the wheels of power but I am one wit
the living creatures that are crushed by it.
50
心是尖锐的，不是宽博的，它执着在每一点上，却并不活动。
The mind, sharp but not broad, sticks at every point but does not move.
51
你的偶象委散在尘土中了，这可证明神的尘土比你的偶象还伟大。
You idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
52
人不能在他的历史中表现出他自己，他在历史中奋斗着露出头角。
Man does not reveal himself in his history, he struggles up through it.
53
玻（王离）灯因为瓦灯叫它做表兄而责备瓦灯。但明月出来时，玻（王离）
灯却温和地微笑着，叫明月为－－－“我亲爱的，亲爱的姐姐。”
While the glass lamp rebukes the earthen for calling it cousin the
moon rises, and the glass lamp, with a bland smile, calls her,
"---My dear, dear sister."
54
我们如海鸥之与波涛相遇似地，遇见了，走近了。海鸥飞去，波涛滚滚地流
开，我们也分别了。
Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.
The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
55
我的白昼已经完了，我象一只泊在海滩上的小船，（言帝）听着晚潮跳舞的
乐声。
My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening
to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

56
我们的生命是天赋的，我们惟有献出生命，才能得到生命。
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
57
当我们是大为谦卑的时候，便是我们最接近伟大的时候。
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
58
麻雀看见孔雀负担着它的（令羽）尾，替它担忧。
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.
59
决不要害怕刹那－－永恒之声这样唱着。
Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
60
风于无路之中寻求最短之路，又突然地在“无何有之国”终之了它的追求。
The hurricane seeks the shortest road by the no-road, and suddenly
ends
its search in the Nowhere.
61
在我自己的杯中，饮了我的酒吧，朋友。
一倒在别人的杯里，这酒的腾跳的泡沫便要消失了。
Take my wine in my own cup, friend.
It loses its wreath of foam when poured into that of others.
62
“完全”为了对“不全”的爱，把自己装饰得美丽。
The perfect decks itself in beauty for the love of the Imperfect.
63
神对人说：“我医治你所以伤害你，爱你所以惩罚你。”
God says to man, I heal you therefore I hurt, love you therefore punish.
64
谢谢火焰给你光明，但是不要忘了那执灯的人，他是坚忍地站在黑暗当中呢。
Thank the flame for its light, but do not forget the lampholder
standing in the shade with constancy of patience.
65
小草呀，你的足步虽小，但是你拥有你足下的土地。
Tiny grass, your steps are small, but you possess the earth under
your tread.
66
幼花的蓓蕾开放了，它叫道：“亲爱的世界呀，请不要萎谢了。”
The infant flower opens its bud and cries, Dear World, please do not fade.
67
神对于那些大帝国会感到厌恶，却决不会厌恶那些小小的花朵。
God grows weary of great kingdoms, but never of little flowers.
68
错误经不起失败，但是真理却不怕失败。
Wrong cannot afford defeat but Right can.
69
瀑布歌唱道：“虽然渴者只要少许的水便够了，我却很快活地给与了我的全
部的水。
I give my whole water in joy, sings the waterfall, though little of
it is enough for the thirsty.
70
把那些花朵抛掷上去的那一阵子无休无止的狂欢大喜的劲儿，其源泉是在哪
里呢？

Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless
outbreak of ecstasy?
71
樵夫的斧头，问树要斧柄。
树便给了他。
The woodcutters axe begged for its handle from the tree.
The tree gave it.
72
这寡独的黄昏，幕着雾与雨，我在我的心的孤寂里，感觉到它的叹息。
In my solitude of heart I feel the sigh of this widowed evening veiled
with mist and rain.
73
贞操是从丰富的爱情中生出来的财富。
Chastity is a wealth that comes from abundance of love.
74
雾，象爱情一样，在山峰的心上游戏，生出种种美丽的变幻。
The mist, like love, plays upon the heart of the hills and bring out surprises of beauty.
75
我们把世界看错了，反说它欺骗我们。
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
76
诗人－－风，正出经海洋森林，追求它自己的歌声。
The poet wind is out over the sea and the forest to seek his own voice.
77
每一个孩子出生时都带来信息说：神对人并未灰心失望。
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged
of man.
78
绿草求她地上的伴侣。
树木求他天空的寂寞。
The grass seeks her crowd in the earth.
The tree seeks his solitude of the sky.
79
人对他自己建筑起堤防来。
Man barricades against himself.
80
我的朋友，你的语声飘荡在我的心里，象那海水的低吟声绕在静听着的松林之间。
Your voice, my friend, wanders in my heart, like the muffled sound
of the sea among these listening pines.
81
这个不可见的黑暗之火焰，以繁星为其火花的，到底是什么呢？
What is this unseen flame of darkness whose sparks are the stars?
82
使生如夏花之绚烂，死如秋叶之静美。
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
83
那想做好人的，在门外敲着门；那爱人，的看见门敞开着。
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
84
在死的时候，众多和而为一；在生的时候，一化为众多。
神死了的时候，宗教便将合而为一。
In death the many becomes one; in life the one becomes many.
Religion will be one when God is dead.
85
艺术家是自然的情人，所以他是自然的奴隶，也是自然的主人。
The artist is the lover of Nature, therefore he is her slave and her
master.
86
“你离我有多远呢，果实呀？”
“我藏在你心里呢，花呀。”
How far are you from me, O Fruit?
I am hidden in your heart, O Flower.
87
这个渴望是为了那个在黑夜里感觉得到，在大白天里却看不见的人。
This longing is for the one who is felt in the dark, but not seen
in the day.
88
露珠对湖水说道；“你是在荷叶下面的大露珠，我是在荷叶上面的较小的露
珠。”
You are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller
one on its upper side, said the dewdrop to the lake.
89
刀鞘保护刀的锋利，它自己则满足于它的迟钝。
The scabbard is content to be dull when it protects the keenness of the sword.
90
在黑暗中，“一”视如一体；在光亮中，“一”便视如众多。在静听着的松林之间。
In darkness the One appears as uniform; in the light the One appears
as manifold.
91
大地借助于绿草，显出她自己的殷勤好客。
The great earth makes herself hospitable with the help of the grass
92
绿叶的生与死乃是旋风的急骤的旋转，它的更广大的旋转的圈子乃是在天上
繁星之间徐缓的转动。
The birth and death of the leaves are the rapid whirls of the eddy
whose wider circles move slowly among stars.
93
权势对世界说道：“你是我的。”
世界便把权势囚禁在她的宝座下面。
爱情对世界说道：“我是你的。”
世界便给予爱情以在它屋内来往的自由。
Power said to the world, You are mine.
The world kept it prisoner on her throne.
Love said to the world, I am thine.
The world gave it the freedom of her house.
94
浓雾仿佛是大地的愿望。
它藏起了太阳，而太阳原是她所呼求的。
The mist is like the earth's desire.
It hides the sun for whom she cries.
95
安静些吧，我的心，这些大树都是祈祷者呀。
Be still, my heart, these great trees are prayers.
96
瞬刻的喧声，讥笑着永恒的音乐。
The noise of the moment scoffs at the music of the Eternal.
97
我想起了浮泛在生与爱与死的川流上的许多别的时代，以及这些时代之被遗
忘，我便感觉到离开尘世的自由了。
I think of other ages that floated upon the stream of life and love
and death and are forgotten, and I feel the freedom of passing away.
98
我灵魂里的忧郁就是她的新婚的面纱。
这面纱等候着在夜间卸去。
The sadness of my soul is her bride's veil.
It waits to be lifted in the night.
99
死之印记给生的钱币以价值，使它能够用生命来购买那真正的宝物。
Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible
to buy with life what is truly precious.
100
白云谦逊地站在天之一隅。
晨光给它戴上霞彩。
The cloud stood humbly in a corner of the sky.
The morning crowned it with splendour.
101
尘土受到损辱，却以她的花朵来报答。
The dust receives insult and in return offers her flowers.
102
只管走过去，不必逗留着采了花朵来保存，因为一路上花朵自会继续开放的。
Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on,
for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.
103
根是地下的枝。
枝是空中的根。
Roots are the branches down in the earth.
Branches are roots in the air.
104
远远去了的夏之音乐，翱翔于秋间，寻求它的旧垒。
The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking
its former nest.
105
不要从你自己的袋里掏出勋绩借给你的朋友，这是污辱他的。
Do not insult your friend by lending him merits from your own pocket.
106
无名的日子的感触，攀缘在我的心上，正象那绿色的苔藓，攀
缘在老树的周身。
The touch of the nameless days clings to my heart like mosses round
the old tree.
107
回声嘲笑她的原声，以证明她是原声。
The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.
108
当富贵利达的人夸说他得到神的特别恩惠时，上帝却羞了。
God is ashamed when the prosperous boasts of His special favour.
109
我投射我自己的影子在我的路上，因为我有一盏还没有燃点起来的明灯。
I cast my own shadow upon my path, because I have a lamp that has not
been lighted.
110
人走进喧哗的群众里去，为的是要淹没他自己的沉默的呼号。
Man goes into the noisy crowed to drown his own clamour of silenc

上面的似乎都是泰戈尔的诗，
我觉得考试时应该没那么多时间把十首诗搜完整的写下来吧
恩，或许只是要测试你的文学水平
下面的是我以前在一本英文诗歌集上选的
我觉得都不错

1.Suffered for love such woe have I

为了爱情，我受了几度煎熬

哈菲兹 hafiz

2.

Love me little ,love me long

爱我少一点，爱我就一点

诺顿norton

3.

The soote season

温柔的季节

亨利。霍华德

4.

The passionate shepherd to his love

牧羊人恋歌

克里斯托佛。马洛

5.

Spirit song over the water

水上灵魂之歌

约翰。沃尔夫冈。歌德

6.

Auld lang syne

昨日时光

罗伯特。彭斯

7.

The last rose of summer

夏日的最后一朵玫瑰

托马斯。摩尔

8.

I loved you

我曾爱过你

亚历山大。普希金

9.

If by life you were deceived

假如生活欺骗了你

普希金

10.

Music ,when soft voice die

当温柔的声音消失时

波西，比西。雪莱

11.

Why the roses are so pale

玫瑰为何如此苍白

亨利希。海涅

12.

Tears ,ldle tears

泪水，无端的流

阿尔弗莱德。丁尼生

13.

Song .歌

克里斯蒂娜。乔治娜，罗塞蒂

14，

If recollecting were forgetting

如果记住就是忘却

艾米莉。狄更生 emily dickinson

15

If you were coming in the fall

如果你能在秋天到来

艾米莉。狄更生 emily dickinson

16.

When day is done

当时光已逝

泰戈尔

17.

Blank joy

空白的欢乐

瑞纳。巴瑞阿，里尔克

Rianer maria rilke

18.

The snow man

雪人

华莱士。斯蒂文斯 wallace stevens

19.

I shall noe care

我不会在意

莎拉。迪斯德尔 sara teasdale

20.

Let lt be forgotten

忘记它

莎拉。迪斯德尔 sara teasdale

21.

In a station of the metro

在地铁车站

伊兹拉。庞德 ezra pound

22.

Love is more thicker than forget

爱比遗忘厚

爱德华，艾斯特林，肯明斯 deward estlin cummings

23

First desire serenade

最初的愿望 小曲

费得里戈，加西亚，洛里伽 federico garcia lorca

24.

Quite girl

安静的女孩

兰斯顿。休斯 langston huges

25.

We have lost even

我们甚至遗失了

巴勃罗。聂鲁达 pabio neruda
26.
when you are old
叶芝

7Life is dear,
love is dearer.
Both can be given up for freedom.
生命诚可贵，
爱情价更高，
若为自由故，
两者皆可抛。
——[匈牙利]桑多尔.裴多菲
Thank you for standing behind me
In all that I do
I hope you're as happy with me
As I am with you

感谢你永远支持我，
不论我作了些什么，
我希望你跟我在一起永远开心，
就像我跟你在一起时那么地快乐

Dreams
梦想
----by Langston Hughes
----作者：兰司敦·修司

Hold fast to dreams
把握梦想
For if dreams die
如果梦想消失
Life is a broken-winged bird
生命将是折翼之鸟
That cannot fly
无法飞行
Hold fast to dreams
把握梦想
For when dreams go
如果梦想逝去
Life is a barren field
生命将是一片荒原
Frozen with snow
大雪冰封

Star Light, Star Bright
星光闪耀

Dorothy Parker
作者：多萝西·帕克

Star, that gives a gracious dole,
星辰，闪着亲切的光
What am I to choose?
而我，又该何去何从？
Oh, will it be a shriven soul,
啊，那究竟是忏悔的灵魂
Or little buckled shoes?
还是，小小的扣带鞋？

Shall I wish a wedding-ring,
我能否要个结婚钻戒
Bright and thin and round,
闪烁，小巧而精致
Or plead you send me covering-
不然就请你把我送进-
A newly spaded mound?
一座新掘的坟墓？

Gentle beam, shall I implore
温和的星光，我能否祈求
Gold, or sailing-ships,
黄金，和出海的船只
Or beg I hate forevermore
不然就让我永远憎恨
A pair of lying lips?
那充满谎言的嘴唇？

Swing you low or high away,
你在天空摇曳，时远时近
Burn you hot or dim;
时而闪耀，时而暗淡
My only wish I dare not say-
我唯一的愿望却不敢言-
Lest you should grant me him.
让你许我一个他。

Life is dear,
love is dearer.
Both can be given up for freedom.
生命诚可贵，
爱情价更高，
若为自由故，
两者皆可抛。

权势对世界说道：“你是我的。”
世界便把权势囚禁在她的宝座下面。
爱情对世界说道：“我是你的。”
世界便给予爱情以在它屋内来往的自由。
Power said to the world, You are mine.
The world kept it prisoner on her throne.
Love said to the world, I am thine.
The world gave it the freedom of her house